Isaiah 44:27
Good News Translation
With a word of command I dry up the ocean.

New Revised Standard Version
who says to the deep, “Be dry— I will dry up your rivers”;

Contemporary English Version
I am the one who commands the sea and its streams to run dry.

New American Bible
I say to the deep, Be dry! I will dry up your rivers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.

be dry

Isaiah 11:15,16 And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their shoes. . . .

Isaiah 42:15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.

Isaiah 43:16 Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.

Isaiah 51:15 But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves thereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.

Psalm 74:15 Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.

Jeremiah 50:38 A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

Jeremiah 51:32,36 And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. . . .

Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.

Context
Jerusalem to Be Restored
26That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes thereof. 27Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.28Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid.…
Cross References
Revelation 16:12
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.

Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:

Isaiah 11:15
And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their shoes.

Isaiah 42:15
I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.

Isaiah 43:16
Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.

Isaiah 50:2
Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.

Jeremiah 50:38
A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and will dry up her spring.

Isaiah 44:26
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